Both the Cabuliwallah and Elaine were treated as "perpetual outsiders." What are the similarities in their situations? What are the difference?
In the story "The Cabuliwallah ", Rahman is the hero, who has come from Cabul, Afghanistan, to do a little business in the street of calcutta. He sells fruit and clothes. Far in distance , in the mountains of Cabul , his wife and a little daughter lived. He has parental feelings , he does have sentiments. He feels lonely in the foreign land. He sells goods to the people, some people take good on credit. Once a year, in the middle of year, Rahman used to return to his own country.
While living in Calcutta , he has made familiarity with some people like the writer, who talks with him in gentle way and helps with money. Many people do not give him prestige. Many people think that he is kidnapper, and he carries away little children to injure him in anger. Thus , he was arrested and imprisoned for eight years. Poor man suffered unnecessarily.
Elaine was treated like a foreigner-non-American , and she suffered in the hand of the whites since her school life.After the devastating Korean War of the 1950s,her family had migrated to America as a refugee.
Most people who had ever heard of Korea thought that it was a state in Japan or China. She was used to being asked if she was Chinese of Japanese, as if there could be no other choices. She had heard that the printing press and gunpowder had been invented in Korea and that a Korean marathon runner had won a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, disapproving Nazi Germany's insistence on the superiority of the whit race. These were not heard in her school. To impose and impress the non-Americans, the school taught that all of the world's great inventions and discoveries were made by Europeans and Americans.
African's Americans were often victimized and harassed. Although Asians were , unlike African Americans, were allowed to live in white neighbourhoods, these Asians also harassed .Her brother was taunted and beaten by white boys daily. She was called called " chink" and "jap". Asians , along with blacks and jews, were not welcome at the tourist homes. She was not invited into white folks 'homes'. She was always asked when she had to America and when she "going back". In that racial climate, Americans treated Asians as foreigners. For an Asian American girl, a cheerleader was near impossibility . These were the reasons that stimulated her to work against racism and sexism.
Less or more both had similar experiences of staying in foreign countries.
In the story "The Cabuliwallah ", Rahman is the hero, who has come from Cabul, Afghanistan, to do a little business in the street of calcutta. He sells fruit and clothes. Far in distance , in the mountains of Cabul , his wife and a little daughter lived. He has parental feelings , he does have sentiments. He feels lonely in the foreign land. He sells goods to the people, some people take good on credit. Once a year, in the middle of year, Rahman used to return to his own country.
While living in Calcutta , he has made familiarity with some people like the writer, who talks with him in gentle way and helps with money. Many people do not give him prestige. Many people think that he is kidnapper, and he carries away little children to injure him in anger. Thus , he was arrested and imprisoned for eight years. Poor man suffered unnecessarily.
Elaine was treated like a foreigner-non-American , and she suffered in the hand of the whites since her school life.After the devastating Korean War of the 1950s,her family had migrated to America as a refugee.
Most people who had ever heard of Korea thought that it was a state in Japan or China. She was used to being asked if she was Chinese of Japanese, as if there could be no other choices. She had heard that the printing press and gunpowder had been invented in Korea and that a Korean marathon runner had won a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, disapproving Nazi Germany's insistence on the superiority of the whit race. These were not heard in her school. To impose and impress the non-Americans, the school taught that all of the world's great inventions and discoveries were made by Europeans and Americans.
African's Americans were often victimized and harassed. Although Asians were , unlike African Americans, were allowed to live in white neighbourhoods, these Asians also harassed .Her brother was taunted and beaten by white boys daily. She was called called " chink" and "jap". Asians , along with blacks and jews, were not welcome at the tourist homes. She was not invited into white folks 'homes'. She was always asked when she had to America and when she "going back". In that racial climate, Americans treated Asians as foreigners. For an Asian American girl, a cheerleader was near impossibility . These were the reasons that stimulated her to work against racism and sexism.
Less or more both had similar experiences of staying in foreign countries.
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